Tag: Taylor Force Act
US court finds Iran and Syria liable for Palestinian attacks in Israel
A U.S. court ruled that Iran and Syria are liable for compensation because of their role in aiding Palestinian terror attacks in Israel that wounded or killed Americans.
Judge Randolph D. Moss in the U.S....
Israel’s Security Cabinet approves law to deduct terror payments from PA
Israel’s Security Cabinet approved the implementation of a law on Sunday to deduct funds from tax revenue withheld from the Palestinian Authority over its payments to terrorists and their families.
The move would deduct funds...
Cruz introduces bill to impose sanctions on Palestinian officials for rewarding terrorism
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced legislation on Thursday to impose sanctions on Palestinian officials who reward terrorists.
The End Palestinian Terror Salaries Act would, within 90 days of being enacted, impose financial penalties on Palestinian officials who...
Major player behind Taylor Force Act to Congress: ‘Stop US and Israeli appeasement’
In response to reports that the Trump administration has been lobbying Congress to save U.S. funding towards the Palestinian Authority, a leader behind the original effort to successfully defund most of that assistance, is...
Congressmen urge Treasury Department to blacklist Palestinian official
Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) are urging the Treasury Department to use Executive Order 13224 to blacklist a top Palestinian official Issa Karake, head of the PLO’s commission of prisoners, who...
PA TV calls terrorists who helped murder two Israeli soldiers in 2000 ‘heroic’
In October 2000, two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, accidentally entered Ramallah. They were lynched by a Palestinian mob who brutally murdered them and mutilated their bodies. Many remember the following...
Palestinians call Israel’s anti-‘pay to slay’ law a ‘declaration of war’
Palestinian leaders slammed the passage of a new Israeli law that would deduct tax funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority over their policy of paying convicted terrorists and their families for carrying out attacks...
‘Pay to slay’ Knesset bill: ‘The PA will be forced to make a decision’
The Israeli bill meant to discourage the Palestinian Authority from paying terrorists, which was just given authorization by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to go to a final vote in Israel’s Knesset, will...
Defense Minister Lieberman offers strong words but little action on Palestinian salaries to terrorists
One of the pressing legislative issues that the Knesset will address in its summer session, that opened on April 30, is penalizing the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its nefarious practice of paying salaries to terrorists and...
Jewish groups satisfied with allocations for Israel and security in omnibus spending bill
Major American Jewish organizations are pleased by the provisions in the newly enacted federal spending bill concerning Israel, national defense and domestic-safety issues.
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized, but in the end signed, the $1.3...